Brad Swanson reports on the happenings in and around Trans World Radio's station on the island of Bonaire. TWR Bonaire broadcasts Gospel music and Bible teaching programs which can be heard in Latin America and the Caribbean: in the Spanish, English, Portuguese, Baniwa, and Macuxi languages.You can click on the pictures to make them bigger.

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Here on Bonaire, we don't often get to meet the members of our international audience. So I'm pleased that TWR's web site is currently featuring the story of someone who heard our signal. The following is a dramatic, but certainly not unique tale.When Carlos was just 13, he
joined the drug trade in the mountains of Colombia. Over time, he became a specialist in the processing of cocaine with the largest “kingdom”
in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range. One day, Carlos was clearing vegetation by
himself deep in the Colombian jungle and he badly sliced his leg with a machete.
Carlos says, "The blood did not stop. I thought that surely someone would help me, but nobody came. I was on the floor, unable to stand. Then I saw a little radio in the room, so I turned it on. A man began to preach. I almost looked to see if he was standing beside my mattress speaking to me personally! He talked about my whole life: Today something happened to you, but that's minimal compared to all the evil you have done. It is just a warning. Don't run from God anymore.

That night, alone with an injured leg and a radio, I gave my life to the Lord."

Rob Evans, aka The Donut Man, was back on Bonaire recently, and visited with us at the International Bible Church. Like many others before him, Rob has found that Bonaire is a great place to recharge one's physical, emotional and spiritual batteries, so to speak.
For more on the Donut Man, check out my post from last year.

If you been on Bonaire the last few years, you've probably seen these yellow bins for recycling glass.

Now there are new improved bins for separating out different types of class. Clear glass, like Prego pasta sauce bottles. Brown glass, like Amstel bottles. And green glass, like Heineken bottles. The bins for glass can be found at stores and restaurants all over the island.

Selibon has just set up a most excellent recycling center on Kaya Industrial, just west of the Warehouse Supermarket.

There are clearly labeled bins and dumpsters for all sorts of materials.